What is Disneys biggest FAIL!?

[Jessica14]

I first went to WDW when I was 11 and then twice in the last three years. I'm not someone who has noticed a decline. I was perfectly happy with the hospitality and all way we were treated.

I will say I was disappointed upon my return three years ago that the Emporium took over all the unique shops. I really miss the Penny Arcade. Although I have nothing to compare it with, I do always look for unique items to bring home and really there is nothing like that.
Jessica

 

[Pigeon]

The dining in general. We've never been able to get the free dining plan as dh is a teacher, and they have blacked out the Feb. and April vacation weeks the years we've gone, so I can't speak to that.

But it's insane to have eleventy million people staying onsite and eleventy million more coming from off site and having such limited dining. Vacation shouldn't be so much work that you need to figure out dining options and make reservations months ahead of time. It's vacation, for goodness sake and it's reasonable to figure people might like a little sponteneity.

I always thought the dining was preposterously overpriced for the quality of the food, the packed quarters and the rushed service. But I just got the most recent edition of the Unofficial Guide out of the library as I've been thinking it might be fun to go back next year.

I saw the part that they now tack on a surcharge for no reason at all other than gouging during the weeks we would be there. Even though it's not a huge amount per person per meal, to me that's sort of the straw that broke the camel's back in terms of corporate greed and poor value.

Our next vacation will be elsewhere.

 

[Sweettears]

The dining in general. We've never been able to get the free dining plan as dh is a teacher, and they have blacked out the Feb. and April vacation weeks the years we've gone, so I can't speak to that.

But it's insane to have eleventy million people staying onsite and eleventy million more coming from off site and having such limited dining. Vacation shouldn't be so much work that you need to figure out dining options and make reservations months ahead of time. It's vacation, for goodness sake and it's reasonable to figure people might like a little sponteneity.

I always thought the dining was preposterously overpriced for the quality of the food, the packed quarters and the rushed service. But I just got the most recent edition of the Unofficial Guide out of the library as I've been thinking it might be fun to go back next year.

I saw the part that they now tack on a surcharge for no reason at all other than gouging during the weeks we would be there. Even though it's not a huge amount per person per meal, to me that's sort of the straw that broke the camel's back in terms of corporate greed and poor value.

Our next vacation will be elsewhere.

Just looked at the WDW for reservations one week out and there is plenty of availability for most TS dining as well as other options. I agree that the hyped options Le Cellier, ohana, etc...) may be hard to get but there are many more options (decent one's IMO) available.

 

[Pigeon]

Just looked at the WDW for reservations one week out and there is plenty of availability for most TS dining as well as other options. I agree that the hyped options Le Cellier, ohana, etc...) may be hard to get but there are many more options (decent one's IMO) available.

Perhaps that's true for the second tier restaurants for next week. Last time we went, I wanted to change a reservation for something different during the week (February break). There was nothing to be had at any sort of time that a child would expect dinner. We ended up eating way more counter service which is essentially the same at many locations. It's boring, it's overpriced and it's not particularly good.

 

[Jennasis]

Stitch's Great Mistake.

 

[Sweettears]

Perhaps that's true for the second tier restaurants for next week. Last time we went, I wanted to change a reservation for something different during the week (February break). There was nothing to be had at any sort of time that a child would expect dinner. We ended up eating way more counter service which is essentially the same at many locations. It's boring, it's overpriced and it's not particularly good.

Not sure what you mean by second tier but i see Yachtsmans, Shula's, Citricos, Narcoossees, Napoli, La Hacienda and a host of others.

 

[drag n' fly]

Generic merchandise, generic food. You take away the parks and you have some pretty run down rooms in places.

 

[PeterPan09]

Couldn't disagree more. If there were more old Disney we wouldn't be chatting about bad food and cheap merchandise.
It's the people that have just discovered Disney or people that know no other vacation destination that encourage all the crap that now stocks shelves and dinner plates.

This is really the story. Disney has figured out that they make most of their money from people who really don't notice the cheap merchandise, the crappy food and the poor show quality. Why should they spend the extra money when they can get away with doing this on the cheap and still keep the hotels and parks full? That way the stockholders-who are the ones that REALLY matter-stay nice and happy.

 

[Geoff_M]

Letting River Country go. With today's Engineering, they could of tiled and sealed around the Water Park, so Bay Lake wouldn't flow into the water system.

It's always been my understanding that RC and Bay Lake were in fact separated by a positive pressure system that used a floating "bladder" dam that kept the treated water level inside RC six inches higher than the surrounding lake and effectively prevented untreated lake water from entering RC. Water was drawn from the lake when needed, treated, pumped into the park, and eventually flowed over the dam back into the lake. IIRC, there several factors that it's believed let to the demise of RC: 1) With TL and BB up and running, people preferred those newer and much larger parks for the water park dollar and usage sagged, 2) the water was unheated and therefore it had a shorter season that the heated water parks, 3) changes in Florida law required that any public pool use a municipal water supply instead of a system that used treated lake water like RC's system. It's unclear if RC would have been grandfathered, and if not retrofitting the plumbing to use a closed system with a new water source would have cost some serious $$$. Regrettable for sure and I know it's missed by many, but understandable from the business point of view.

 

[lakelandgal70]

We also are DVC members and passholders. Do I think Disney is perfect? No but I still love it so much. I have noticed some things they are failing at. Like the food, mainly at the buffets. They have gone down hill. Thankfully the sit down meals have been pretty good. The merchandise also isn't what it use to be. On almost every trip I would find a tshirt that or hat that we would want but last several trips haven't found anything.

 

[jenny105]

I think this whole new Avatar land in AK is dumb. Of all the things they could choose, they picked this lame idea.

I love Winnie the Pooh but I wish Mr. Toad were still there. I agree I wish they would add attractions instead of replacing classic ones.

I also do not like the Stitch ride. But who does?

 

[FergieTCat]

Most of the Future side in Epcot. I liked the original attractions (Horizons, Kitchen Kabaret, Imagination, Living Seas), I don't know why they ditched them.

I think the Future side of Epcot would be cool if it was designed truer to the 1964 World's Fair. Sort of a nostalgic look at what we thought the world would have been like in the future. Right now, it's neither here nor there.